Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...
...Good Old Days." The most inventive of current directors, Huston knows as much about visual storytelling as any living man. Yet he has no weakness for the visual wow. He can contrive unforgettable images such as Robinson's bestial lolling in the bathtub (easily the most efficacious tub shot in movie history) or his death under Bogart's bullets, as obstinate as the rearing snake he suggests. But such images are never merely "pictorial" or "effective." Huston's style, so transparent that it would be very hard to describe, is unimitative and inimitable. It stamps Huston...
Last week medical opinion hinted that, barring tumbles, the bathtub may be the safest place for summer bathing...
Sealskin in the Bathtub. The world has never been notably sane, but it exists under the convention that it is-just as in certain families there is an agreement not to notice that a "peculiar" aunt wears three hats to the breakfast table and a sealskin coat in the bathtub. Waugh's world simply ignores that convention. Lunacy is its norm, evil is without guilt, pain without pathos, and tragedy is comedy. Yet, in lucid intervals, the real world and Waugh's world are seen in part to be one. The degree to which they are so measures...
...gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike...